Your Chances of an Interview: What the Schools Actually Publish

Aston says "We do not consider the SJT banding in our ranking." Its published scoring rules add that the Situational Judgement Test banding will not be scored, and the UCAT is scored on its three cognitive sections.

Aston states it has no lower cut-off for either the UCAT total or the SJT, which is a rarer position than it sounds: several schools in this dataset reject a band 4 SJT outright, so an applicant carrying one has a materially different set of realistic options and Aston is on it. The UCAT is weighed alongside the rest of the entry requirements rather than used as a gate.

Aston says "Invitation to MMIs will be based on ranking of applicants established from academic qualifications and the total UCAT score." Home and widening participation applicants are ranked separately on achieved qualifications such as GCSEs plus total UCAT score, while overseas applicants are ranked on UCAT total score only.

Bangor's medicine FAQs state that UCAT Situational Judgement scores are currently not considered, adding that this is subject to change. No band is named as an automatic rejection, and no band is named as a requirement.

Bangor states plainly that it has no minimum UCAT threshold, and publishes no mean or median for those interviewed. The score still counts: it is used as part of selection, so a low total is a disadvantage rather than a disqualification. Applicants must sit the UCAT in the year of application.

Bangor requires the UCAT, sat in the year of application, but publishes no minimum threshold. Its FAQs state that eligible applicants are ranked by UCAT score and the highest scorers are invited to interview until all slots are filled, so the bar is whatever that year's field produces rather than a number an applicant can check themselves against in advance.

BSMS does use the SJT band as a gate on interview selection. Its entry requirements page states that, to select for interview, applicants scoring a SJT band 1, 2 or 3 are ranked according to their UCAT score, with top ranking candidates invited to interview. BSMS does not say on that page what happens to an applicant scoring band 4.

BSMS publishes no UCAT threshold on its own entry requirements page. What it does state is the mechanism: applicants scoring SJT band 1, 2 or 3 are ranked by UCAT score and the top ranked are invited, and applicants holding adjusted offers are ranked separately from the wider pool rather than against it. A threshold of 1990 for 2026 entry circulates on third-party sites; it does not appear on the BSMS page and is not reproduced here.

BSMS does not publish a numeric UCAT cut-off. After screening against the academic requirements, applicants scoring an SJT band 1, 2 or 3 are ranked on their UCAT score and the top ranking candidates are invited to interview. Applicants with adjusted offers are ranked separately from the wider applicant pool, and BSMS aims to reserve 30 per cent of interviews for applicants with contextual data.

Brunel's course page for 2027 entry says selection for interview is based on UCAT performance relative to other applicants, and adds: "Please note, we do not accept applicants with SJT Band 4." It publishes no other SJT band rule.

Brunel sets no cut-off score. Selection for interview is by ranking against the rest of that year's applicants, so the effective bar is whatever the field produces. Brunel also accepts the GAMSAT in place of the UCAT and GAMSAT scores stay valid for two years, which means a disappointing UCAT is less final here than almost anywhere else.

Brunel says home applicants are invited to interview on their UCAT or GAMSAT score: "While there's no set UCAT cut-off score, selection for interview is competitive and based on overall performance in the test relative to other applicants in the same year of entry." International applicants do not need the UCAT.

Cardiff publishes no minimum threshold and says a UCAT tariff may be used to help select for interview, with the score required varying each year according to how competitive the field is. Its full scoring process is set out in a separate admissions information document rather than on the course page.

Applicants are given an academic score built from eight GCSE subjects, which must include Biology, Chemistry, English first language and Mathematics or Numeracy, and from the UCAT decile ranking; the two are combined. GCSEs score 3 points for a 9, 8 or A*, 2 points for a 7 or A, and 1 point for a 6 or B, on achieved grades only. UCAT deciles score 3 points for the 9th to 7th deciles, 2 points for the 6th to 4th, and 1 point for the 3rd to 1st. One additional point is awarded for academic achievement at further or higher education. Cardiff publishes no score to aim for and says only that a UCAT cut-off may be applied to shortlist further, and that a UCAT score may be used where the number of applicants on the same academic score exceeds the number of interview places.

Edge Hill states at the UCAT ranking stage of its selection process that "Any candidate scoring within band 4 in the Situational Judgement Test will be automatically rejected."

Edge Hill sets its threshold retrospectively, working back from the number of interviews it intends to hold, so no figure exists in advance by design rather than by policy of secrecy. The threshold is extended for widening participation candidates and for those who completed Edge Hill's own Widening Access to Medicine Programme.

Edge Hill says "Applicants who meet the minimum academic criteria will be ranked according to their UCAT scores." It then sets a UCAT threshold based on how many interviews it will hold, and applicants who meet that threshold are invited to interview.

Newcastle says "Candidates with a UCAT Situational Judgement Test Band of 4 (the lowest band) will not be considered." Its 2027 policy then adds the SJT band to the final interview score, with Band 1 worth 5 points, Band 2 worth 3 and Band 3 worth 1, weighted the same as one interview station.

Newcastle publishes no UCAT threshold for this cycle. Home A100 applicants are ranked on a combined score out of 100, with up to 40 points for grades and up to 60 for the UCAT, and its course page says the threshold may differ in each admissions cycle because it depends on the scores of that cycle's applicants. The thresholds document the course page links to is no longer online, so no past figures are given here.

Newcastle's 2027 policy gives A100 home applicants up to 40 points for GCSEs, up to 40 for A levels and up to 60 for the total UCAT score, and says "A100 home applicants’ academic and UCAT points will be combined to give an overall “academic screen” score, and applications will be ranked according to this score." International and A101 applicants are ranked on UCAT alone.

Queen's says "The UCAT Situational Judgement Test (SJT) can be used at two points to inform decisions: 1. On borderline applicants who have achieved a similar combined academic and UCAT score." The second point is borderline applicants with a similar score at interview.

Queen's publishes no UCAT threshold. Its admissions FAQ describes the UCAT only in terms of the deadline and one tie-break rule: where two candidates finish level in rank order after interview and only one place remains, the offer goes to the candidate with the higher SJT score. So the SJT is a decider at the very end here rather than a filter at the start.

Queen's says "All applicants will be scored at Stage 1 of the selection process and ranked on the basis of their combined academic and UCAT score." Its 2027 policy awards up to nine UCAT points by decile rank, and the UCAT score is added to the GCSE points score to give an overall total.

Applications are considered only with an SJT band of 1 to 3, so Band 4 rules an applicant out. The band is reviewed alongside the three cognitive subtests, each of which must be 500 or above. Applicants meeting the academic, UCAT and SJT requirements are invited to MMI.

St Mary's publishes no UCAT threshold, mean or median. What it does publish is the shape of the review: all three cognitive subtests are considered rather than the total alone, so an uneven profile is visible here in a way it would not be at a school ranking on total.

All applicants sit the UCAT. St Mary's reviews scores across all three cognitive subtests, Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning, alongside the SJT band, rather than looking at the total alone, and its course page sets a floor for 2027/28 entry: applications are considered with each subtest at 500 or above and an SJT band of 1 to 3.

Bristol's 2027 Medicine admissions statement says "The combined score from all subtests, with the exception of Situational Judgement, will be used to select applicants for interview." The statement gives no SJT band rule.

Bristol scores shortlisting on the UCAT with a 100% weighting once academic requirements are met, and has stopped using the personal statement as a weighted component. Where applicants tie at interview, the UCAT is the primary differentiator. Bristol's admissions statement sets no cut-off in advance, and its course page publishes the realised threshold afterwards: for 2026 entry the final UCAT threshold score to be invited to interview was 2240 for home applicants and 2270 for overseas. Those figures are last cycle's landing point rather than a bar to measure a score against, which is why no threshold figure is shown beside one: Bristol states that a specific score cannot be used with certainty to predict an invitation.

Bristol's medicine admissions statement says that once minimum academic entry requirements are met, predicted or achieved, an application is scored with a 100 per cent weighting on the UCAT result, and that this is used to select candidates for interview. The combined score from all subtests except Situational Judgement is the score used. Bristol does publish the figures actually applied last cycle: for 2026 entry the final UCAT threshold score to be invited to interview was 2240 for home applicants and 2270 for overseas applicants. Bristol adds that the number used as a threshold for interview is subject to change year on year.

Cambridge says it looks at the overall UCAT cognitive subtest score and adds "We will not be using the situational judgement score as part of our assessment for 2027 entry."

Cambridge states there is no minimum UCAT threshold. It uses the overall cognitive subtest score as part of selection for interview and may use it again when making offers, weighed alongside the academic record and the interviews rather than as a gate. The detail worth knowing is what it ignores: Cambridge does not use the situational judgement score at all for 2027 entry, so a band that would end an application at several other schools carries no weight here.

Cambridge looks at an applicant's overall UCAT cognitive subtest score and says "We will use results as part of our selection for interview and may use them when making offers. We will consider your results alongside all the other information we know about you." It states there is no minimum threshold for UCAT score.

Exeter publishes no threshold, mean or median. It sorts applications by academic profile together with the overall UCAT score to decide who is interviewed, so the test is one of two inputs at that stage rather than the sole gate it is at several other schools.

Exeter says applicants who meet its published entry requirements "will have their UCAT and Academic qualifications weighted to assign an Exeter score. Weightings will be a ratio of 3:1 Academic achievement /UCAT." Home applicants are then ranked on this score and the highest ranked are selected for interview.

Hertfordshire has no standard cut-off value and says so. Applicants meeting the academic requirements are ranked by UCAT and the top of that ranking is invited to interview, and the school states explicitly that it is not possible to tell applicants in advance what score will be enough.

Hertfordshire says it has no standard UCAT cut-off. "Applicants will be ranked by their UCAT score and a certain number will be invited to an Interview, provided they meet our main academic entry requirements."

HYMS ranks applicants for interview on a points score in which the UCAT Situational Judgement Test band counts for up to 15 points. It says "Points are allocated depending on the SJT Band achieved, up to a maximum of 15 points. We do not accept Band 4."

Hull York publishes no threshold, mean or median. It awards points on both the total UCAT score and the SJT band, so the SJT carries positive weight here rather than acting only as a disqualifier, which is the more common arrangement.

HYMS ranks applicants who meet its academic requirements on a points score and invites the top scorers to interview, with no specific score required. Points come from GCSEs (best six grades, up to 35 points), the total UCAT decile (up to 35 points), the UCAT SJT band (up to 15 points; Band 4 is not accepted) and contextual admissions points (up to 15 points).

Kent and Medway says: "SJTs form part of the UCAT test. The results are graded in bands from one to four. KMMS will not consider applications from anyone with a band 4 score."

KMMS publishes a selection threshold but not means or medians. Its 2027 entry requirements page says that in 2025-6 it operated a selection threshold of a total UCAT of 1850 or above, which it says corresponded to the 47th centile, with SJT band 3 or above (band 2 or above for graduates); its older 2026 entry page still prints 2490 for the same cycle. The 1850 is a stage 2a pass mark rather than the lowest score interviewed: a stage 2b follows, and KMMS states that high scorers will not necessarily be selected over lower scorers who also passed. It is therefore not recorded as an interview threshold here, and KMMS does not commit to the same or a similar figure for 2027 entry.

Kent and Medway applies a UCAT threshold that it does not commit to in advance, then a further contextualised stage: "Please note that because there is a stage 2b after the UCAT selection, high UCAT scorers will not necessarily be selected over lower scorers who still pass the threshold."

Now the University of Lancashire. It publishes no threshold, mean or median, stating only that the UCAT is used as part of the selection process before interview. Its former restriction of UK applicants to the North West has been lifted, which changes who can realistically apply far more than any threshold would.

The University of Lancashire says applicants meeting its minimum academic requirements are given an academic score, and that "For UK applicants, your UCAT results will be utilised as part of the interview selection process." Its personal statement and reference are also scored, and the UCAT threshold is set each cycle and not known beforehand.

Leicester publishes no threshold score but does publish a decile rule, which is more durable because it moves with the national cohort. Home fee status candidates in their first gap year are automatically invited to interview with a total UCAT in the top five deciles and an SJT in bands 1 to 3. Leicester also warns that its A100 scoring changed substantially for 2026 entry because of the change to the UCAT total, so earlier cycles are not a guide. The full method is set out in its published A100 scoring document.

Lincoln gives points for the SJT band within its interview selection score: "Scoring for the Situational Judgement Test (SJT) band of the UCAT Score will be applied as follows. The maximum score that can be achieved is 15." Band 1 earns 15 points, Band 2 earns 10 and Band 3 earns 5, and "Applicants who score an SJT Band 4 cannot progress to interview and will be rejected at the point of application."

Lincoln publishes no threshold and says it has none, but it does publish the machinery, which is more useful. The UCAT contributes up to 30 of the 60 points in its Combined Academic Score, so it is worth half the shortlisting score, and where two candidates tie the raw UCAT total breaks it, meaning the test counts twice in effect. A band 4 SJT ends the application.

Lincoln says selection for interview uses a Combined Academic Score, "typically made up of a combination of GCSE results, University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) scores; and contextualisation score where applicable, to a maximum total score of 60". Candidates are ranked on this score and the highest ranked are invited to interview.

SJT is checked alongside UCAT at the ranking stage. Home applicants must score band 1 to 3 in the situational judgement test for their application to be processed; international and EU applicants may offer any of the four SJT bands.

Liverpool publishes an estimate rather than a threshold, and labels it as such. Based on its 2026-entry cut-offs, it expects home applicants applying in 2026 for 2027 entry to need a score in the 5th to 7th candidate decile, which it gives as 1880 to 2010, and international applicants the 7th to 9th decile, 2010 to 2220. It stresses these vary annually with the applicant pool and are for guidance only. No threshold figure is shown, because an estimate treated as a cut-off would start ruling people out on a number Liverpool never committed to. How the UCAT is actually used is published each year in Liverpool's A100 Departmental Supplement to the Admissions Policy, which it expects applicants to read before applying.

Applicants are ranked on their overall UCAT score; Liverpool states it uses the overall score and not individual subtest scores in that ranking, and the top-scoring applicants then progress to the second stage, academic assessment. The cut-offs published for 2026 entry were 1960 for home applicants and 2080 for international and EU applicants. Liverpool says cut-off scores vary from year to year, and that it removed historic UCAT scores from its website because the UCAT itself changed for 2026 entry. Graduate applicants to A100 are ranked on the GAMSAT instead, on overall score, with a minimum of 50 in each sub-component.

Nottingham gives points for the SJT band in the score it uses to select for interview, and excludes band 4: "Situational Judgement Test scoring Band Points Band 1 10 Band 2 6 Band 3 2 Band 4 0 If you achieve Band 4 on the SJT test, you won't be considered for an interview."

Nottingham states there is no fixed threshold score to be selected for interview, that thresholds change each year with applicant numbers and overall performance, and, unusually explicitly, that it does not share information about previous years' interview thresholds. There is no figure to find here, rather than one nobody has looked for.

Nottingham publishes points for GCSE grades, UCAT cognitive subtests (with verbal reasoning doubled) and SJT bands, and says "Your GCSE and UCAT scores will be added together. There is no fixed threshold score when selecting for interview."

Plymouth says it cannot confirm the cut-off for a cycle until all applications have been received and assessed, so no figure exists at the point an applicant would need it. Any number quoted for Plymouth during an open cycle did not come from Plymouth.

UCAT results are used alongside A-levels and GCSEs to select for interview, and Plymouth's Admissions Advisory Panel reserves the right to consider all aspects of the UCAT when shortlisting. The test is valid for 12 months and must be sat in the year of application. Plymouth states that the threshold score applied to determine selection for interview can alter each year, influenced by overall candidate performance in the UCAT and the number and quality of applications received, and that it cannot confirm the cut-off for the coming academic year until all applications have been received and assessed. It also states that the advertised typical offers are not necessarily the threshold for interview selection.

Southampton ranks applicants by UCAT score to decide who is invited to a Selection Day, and says "The University of Southampton does not currently use the Situational Judgement Test." No SJT band is named as a requirement or as a reason for rejection.

Southampton ranks everyone who meets the entry requirements by UCAT score and invites from the top, and states outright that the score of those attending a selection day varies year on year so it is not possible to indicate what is required. Two details are worth knowing beyond that: offers are made on interview performance alone, and the UCAT returns only as a tie-breaker if two candidates finish level after the selection day.

Southampton says "Applicants for BM4 and BM5 will be ranked by UCAT score to determine who should be invited to a Selection Day." It adds that the UCAT score of applicants attending a Selection Day varies year on year, so it cannot say in advance what score is needed.

Situational judgement test result must be within bands 1 to 3.

Sunderland states a rank rather than a score for the current cycle: the total must fall within the top eight deciles of the cohort, with an SJT in bands 1 to 3. It does publish past minimum scores, adjusted for the removal of abstract reasoning: 1670 (2024), 1680 (2023), 1650 (2022), 1670 (2021) and 1690 (2020). Sunderland labels these by year without saying whether the year is the test year or the entry year, or whether they are minimums for interview or for offer, so no threshold is set here. In practice the top eight deciles is a comparatively generous bar, excluding roughly the bottom fifth of test takers.

Sunderland requires UCAT scores in the top 8 deciles of the cohort and an SJT in bands 1 to 3. It then says "Shortlisting for interview is based on our interview selection tool, academic requirements, and UCAT score." It publishes no weighting between these.

Anglia Ruskin applies an SJT rule before interview: "Applicants with an SJT score of Band 4 (lowest band) will not be invited for interview." Its routes that offer an interview regardless of UCAT score still require SJT band 1-3.

Anglia Ruskin says it has no standard UCAT cut-off and that "Applicants will be ranked by their UCAT score, including any uplifts applied, and a certain number will be invited to an Interview Day, provided they meet our main academic entry requirements." Uplifts apply to applicants living in the East of England and Essex.

Keele says "Applicants with a total UCAT score below 1,700 or a situational judgement test (SJT) result in band 4 will not be considered." The SJT band also earns points in the UCAT grade it uses to rank home applicants: "A score between 1 and 10 is calculated from the UCAT scores as follows: UCAT quintile Points UCAT SJT band Points".

Keele says home applicants are shortlisted on a published combined score: "The UCAT grade and personal statement grade will be calculated as shown below and combined to give a total on a scale of 1 to 25. This total mark will be used to rank A100 applicants for interview."

Lancaster ranks applicants for interview on their overall UCAT score, and the SJT band acts only as a cut-off: "Please note that we will not consider applicants with an SJT score in band 4." Bands 1 to 3 are not given any further weight on this page.

Lancaster first checks that applicants meet its academic entry requirements, then shortlists on the UCAT: "Applicants who meet our academic requirements will be ranked according to their overall UCAT score. Invitations to interview will be made based upon this ranking." It also says contextual information is considered when reviewing UCAT scores.

Queen Mary requires SJT Bands 1-3 at first shortlisting for Medicine and states "Your application will not be considered further than the first shortlisting if you scored SJT Band 4." The SJT may be considered again after interview.

Queen Mary first rejects MBBS applicants below the fourth UCAT decile or in SJT Band 4. At second shortlisting, "Applicants will then be selected for interview on the basis of a weighted score compared to other applicants who apply in the same year, and may be comprised of UCAT score, UCAS tariff of entry qualifications predicted or achieved".

City St George's shortlists for interview on UCAT score, then uses the SJT after interview: "Once all of our interviews are conducted, we rank MMI and SJT scores and the highest performing applicants within each group are made an offer to study Medicine at City St George's." It publishes no SJT band cut-off.

City St George's says each applicant who meets its entry criteria is ranked by UCAT score within separate home, overseas and graduate groups: "Interview places will be allocated to applicants who have the highest UCAT scores within the groups above, until all of our available interview places are filled." The cut-off is set by the number of interviews available.

Birmingham leaves the SJT out of the UCAT total it scores when selecting for interview, and says "The band score for the Situational Judgment Test (SJT) component of UCAT will be used at the interview stage."

Birmingham gives each standard applicant an overall score made from academic (GCSE), UCAT and contextual parts, and ranks applicants on it to select for interview. It says "The weighting will be: 45% academic, 40% UCAT and 15% contextual." The UCAT part uses the three cognitive subtests, scored by national decile.

Edinburgh says "We also allocate a score to your situational judgement banding." That score is added to the academic score for its shortlisting ranking. It also says "Potential applicants who score a Band 4 in the Situational Judgement Test will not be considered for entry."

Edinburgh sets a minimum UCAT total of 1850 for 2027 entry, except for Plus Flag applicants. It then ranks UCAT totals into deciles, gives each decile a score and scores the SJT band. "The points are then added to your academic score to contribute towards your final ranking for shortlisting and possible invitation to one of our Assessment Days."

Leeds says "Eligible applicants will be shortlisted for interview using a points-based system which considers your top eight GCSE results (including any required subjects), your top three predicted grades (including any required subjects), your overall UCAT score and contextual information." It adds that there is no fixed UCAT cut-off score.

Manchester's 2027 medicine entry requirements say "Please note that we do not consider applicants who achieve Band 3 or 4 in the Situational Judgement Test (SJT) element of the UCAT."

Manchester sets its medicine UCAT threshold each year after November results, based on that year's scores, so it cannot publish it in advance. It says "Where the number of highly scoring candidates exceeds the number of interview slots available, we will rank candidates according to UCAT total score and SJT band."

Oxford states that it will not use an applicant's situational judgement score at the shortlisting stage; for UCAT results at that stage it looks only at the overall cognitive subtest score. Oxford does not say, on its pre-clinical requirements page, its application-process page or its shortlisting FAQ, whether the situational judgement band re-enters the process at any later point, and it publishes no band cut-off. Its description of what colleges review after interview refers to the candidate rank from the second college and the UCAT score, and does not mention the situational judgement band.

Oxford establishes a numerical ranking from UCAT results and, where an applicant has completed them, GCSE results; that ranking forms the basis of an initial shortlist. For applicants with GCSEs, GCSEs and UCAT carry equal weight at the first stage of shortlisting. Double weight is given to the UCAT for applicants without GCSEs, for those who took GCSEs between summer 2020 and summer 2021, and for those who took five or fewer GCSEs. Only the overall cognitive subtest score is used. Because Oxford shortlists the same number of people every year using two variables that carry the same weight, it states there is no actual cut-off for either variable and that it is therefore impossible to advise on the exact UCAT score an applicant would need.

Sheffield uses the SJT after interview rather than to shortlist: the SJT quartile is converted into a score out of five, and "Your MMI and Situational Judgement Test scores will be added together for a total score out of 45." Applicants are then ranked on this total for offers.

Sheffield checks minimum academic requirements and a minimum UCAT threshold, then says "All other applications will be ranked according to their UCAT scores and only those with the highest UCAT scores will progress to the next stage of the selection process." Some widening participation applicants progress once they meet the minimum threshold.

Imperial's published answers for 2026 entry list the SJT rule it applied at each fee status: "UCAT Thresholds for Home Applicants • SJT: Band 3 minimum (Band 4 discounted)" and "UCAT Thresholds for Overseas / European Union / Query Applicants* • SJT: Band 3 minimum (Band 4 discounted)". Widening participation applicants were held to the same Band 3 minimum.

For 2026 entry the threshold was 2320/2700 for home applicants and 2170 for widening participation, both requiring SJT band 3 or better. Imperial calculates the threshold each year by ranking applicants and cutting where its interview capacity runs out, normally the top third, so the figure is a consequence of the field rather than a standard. It switched to the UCAT only for 2025 entry, so it has two cycles of history and says its own numbers should not be read as a guarantee. A separate overseas figure of 2310 is widely reported but was not confirmed on Imperial's own pages, so it is not recorded.

Imperial says that after checking minimum academic entry requirements, "Candidates are selected for interview based on their UCAT scores. The College calculates threshold UCAT scores each year as a result of ranked candidate UCAT scores versus number of expected interview sessions."

King's states that the SJT is not taken into account when shortlisting for interview; only the overall UCAT score is considered.

Out of 3,600, so not comparable with a current score, but the shape is the lesson. For UK applicants in the 2024 cycle the mean UCAT rose from 2759 across everyone who applied to 3007 among those interviewed, a jump of nearly 250 marks, and then barely moved to 3005 among offer holders. In other words the UCAT does almost all its work at the interview gate and almost none after it: past that point the interview decides. King's states plainly that the lowest scores it lists are not cut-offs and that not everyone above them was invited. Interview scores tell the second half of the story, averaging 75% across all interviewees and 80% among those who received offers.

King's applied no minimum UCAT threshold in the most recent cycle. Applications were ranked on UCAT performance, GCSE grades and widening participation indicators; the overall UCAT score is used and individual subtest scores are not considered separately. The level of UCAT performance needed for interview varies with the strength of each year's applicant cohort.

Aberdeen requires the full UCAT, but the score it allocates in selection is the total of the three cognitive subtests only - Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning and Decision Making - so the SJT does not enter that score. Aberdeen publishes no SJT band cut-off or separate SJT weighting.

Recorded here on the rest-of-UK figures, since that is the route an applicant from England takes: mean UCAT at interview 1990/2700 and lowest interviewed 1720 against 222 applications, 164 interviews and 133 offers. Scottish applicants faced a slightly lower bar, mean 1960 and lowest 1700, from 955 applications, 839 interviews and 643 offers. International was highest at mean 2010 and lowest 1730, from 455 applications for 149 interviews and 90 offers, by far the most competitive of the three.

Aberdeen publishes one weighting for medicine: academic attainment and predictions 30%, UCAT 20%, interview performance 50%. It does not publish a separate pre-interview weighting, so how the academic and UCAT shares are scaled against each other to decide who is invited is not stated. A minimum UCAT cut-off score is not used; a score is allocated on overall UCAT performance compared with all other applicants to Aberdeen.

Dundee states that UCAT Situational Judgement Test bands are not used as part of the initial selection for interview process, so a weaker band does not block an applicant at the shortlisting stage. Dundee does not state how the band is treated after that point.

Out of 3,600, not 2,700: Dundee's published table stops at 2023-24 entry, before Abstract Reasoning was withdrawn, so none of it can be set against a current score. Across 2019-20 to 2023-24 the average UCAT of those invited to interview moved very little, from 2674 to 2675, peaking at 2715. The lowest score interviewed is the more revealing figure and swings hard: 1980, 1480, 2090, 1940 and 1900 across the same five years, so in some years Dundee interviewed people more than a thousand marks below its own top scorers.

All applicants must sit the UCAT in their year of application, and Dundee states there is no minimum cut-off score. Its entry requirements page gives no percentage weighting and no scoring formula combining the UCAT with academic scores.

The SJT component score is included within the interview score rather than treated as a separate gate. UEA publishes no SJT band threshold and names no band as an automatic rejection; after interview, applicants are ranked on interview score, which carries the SJT, alongside overall UCAT score, and the two are weighted equally.

Out of 3,600, from UEA's own freedom of information disclosures rather than a statistics page. The trend is the interesting part: the lowest score invited fell every year, 2340 then 2190 then 2080, while the average of those invited also fell, 2849 then 2795 then 2743. UEA got easier on the UCAT three years running even as it interviewed more people from fewer applications, 699 interviews from 1,012 applications for 2025 entry against 622 from 1,688 two years earlier. It made 599 offers for 192 places. UEA also states that personal statements are read but not assessed or scored in any way, that GCSEs and A-levels carry no weighting in shortlisting, and that the EPQ is not considered.

UEA says it has no UCAT cut-off score, and that "The overall UCAT score is used to rank applicants for selection for interview." Applicants must first pass primary screening against its minimum academic entry criteria.

Glasgow lists the UCAT as three cognitive subtests, verbal reasoning, decision making and quantitative reasoning, alongside the Situational Judgement Test, and then states in one line that it does not consider the SJT portion of the UCAT. Only the cognitive total counts towards the score threshold Glasgow uses to decide interviews.

Glasgow sets three different thresholds by domicile for 2026 entry and the spread is 280 marks: 1870/2700 for Scottish applicants, 1990 for the rest of the UK, and 2150 for international and EU. The 1870 held here is the Scottish figure, deliberately the lowest of the three so that no applicant is wrongly told they are blocked, but an applicant from England should read their own bar as 1990. Glasgow will not know its 2027 thresholds until November 2026 and does not publish them until the cycle closes in September 2027.

Glasgow says "Interviews are allocated accordingly by UCAT score for those that meet all other screening aspects (e.g. minimum academic requirements and satisfactory personal statement and reference)." It adds that the lowest UCAT score it considers changes each year and may differ by applicant group.

Out of 3,600. St Andrews' own page says the 2025 maximum is 2700 and then reports offer-holder means of 2736, 2923 and 3016 for the same cycle, which is impossible on that scale, so the whole table is read here as the old 3,600 one and none of it can be compared with a current score. Domicile changes the bar enormously: for 2025-26 the mean UCAT of offer holders was 2736 for Scottish applicants, 2923 for rest of UK and 2837 for overseas, and the lowest interviewed was 2230, 2400 and 2660 respectively. A rest-of-UK applicant faces a materially harder route than a Scottish one.

St Andrews does not score applications component by component. Applicants who meet its requirements are ranked on the basis of their UCAT global score, and those ranked in the top 650 or so are given an interview. Decisions to make offers are based on the interview score, and where applicants have the same interview score the global UCAT score is used to differentiate between them. Widening participation applicants who meet, or are predicted to meet, the required academic grades and who meet any of a list of criteria are given a 10 per cent increase in their UCAT score, which is used in the ranking for invitation to interview.

No UCAT required. Selection is by academic screening of the written application followed by a Multiple Mini Interview; the course page no longer lists the in-house Multiple Mini Assessment (MMA), though Buckingham's Selection Days page still does.

Greater Manchester does not require the UCAT for the cycles currently open. It states that from the September 2028 cohort onwards all applicants to its School of Medicine are required to take the UCAT, and that the test helps universities widen access and make fairer choices among the many highly qualified applicants. For September 2026 and September 2027 entry there is no UCAT requirement at all.

All applicants must meet a minimum threshold score in either the GAMSAT or the UCAT. The GAMSAT must be taken within the two years before the UCAS submission date; the UCAT must be taken in the same year as the UCAS submission. Cumbria does publish its thresholds: for 2026 entry it applied a minimum UCAT total of 1960 or a minimum GAMSAT total of 59 for home applicants, reduced to 1910 and 53 respectively for contextual applicants. Cumbria notes that 2026-entry UCAT scores differ because the abstract reasoning section was removed, giving a lower maximum total of 2700 rather than 3600. No threshold for a later cycle is published on this page.

Swansea states that UCAT Situational Judgement bands will not be considered; only the UCAT total, from a test sat in the year of application, is used.

Swansea says that for all admissions tests "a cut-score will be determined to select candidates for interview. This may be higher than the set minimum score and will be determined annually based on the number of applications received." Applicants meeting the annual cut-off are invited, and test results are then considered no further.

Chester sets a minimum threshold in whichever admissions test was taken and states that it fluctuates annually and is set above the national mean. Its course page also prints a table it labels as a guide to the 2025 admissions thresholds: UCAT overall 2540 with at least 570 in Verbal Reasoning, GAMSAT 60 with at least 50 in Paper 3, and MCAT 505 with at least 127 in Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills and no section below 125. Chester does not say which UCAT scale the 2540 is on, and the label points to a cycle before the current 2,700-point scale, so it is not shown as a threshold here.

Chester requires applicants to meet a minimum threshold mark in the UCAT, GAMSAT or MCAT, which it says fluctuates annually and is set above the national mean. It states "All applicants who successfully meet the academic criteria and entry test standards will be required to attend for interview."

Candidates sitting the UCAT must have a situational judgement test band of 3 or above to be considered for interview, and a candidate with an SJT band of 4 is rejected. This rule appears in Surrey's Medicine (Graduate Entry) BMBS admissions process policy for 2027 entry, which the 2027-entry course page links as the guide to what to expect.

Surrey publishes no UCAT threshold, mean or median. The SJT is the one hard gate it does name: band 3 or above is required for interview, so a band 4 ends a UCAT application here regardless of the cognitive total.

Surrey's 2027 admissions policy says its review group selects candidates by anonymised ranking of admissions test score, and that "Applications will be sorted according to academic profile and GAMSAT (or UCAT) overall score in order to determine which applicants will receive an offer of an interview." No weighting between the two is published.

Warwick shortlists by combining UCAT total score with previous academic achievement, after a minimum Verbal Reasoning score, and says of the Situational Judgement Test: "We do not use SJT bands as part of our admissions process." No band is named as a reason for rejection.

Warwick requires a Verbal Reasoning score at least equal to the mean of all test-takers, then says "We do not have an absolute minimum total UCAT score; scores are combined with previous academic achievements in our shortlisting process." It publishes no weighting, and says the total score needed for its Multiple Mini Interviews varies year on year.

Worcester states it has no hard cut-off because the bar depends on the shape of each year's curve. It accepts the GAMSAT as an alternative to the UCAT, and every shortlisted applicant must then sit CASPer, a separate situational judgement test, so the aptitude testing does not end with the UCAT.